December 12, 2024 • 23 mins
Rob and Kelvin explain why Patrick Mahomes comments about the Kansas City Chiefs’ upcoming schedule prove that the NFL doesn’t really care about player safety, tell us why Bill Belichick winning a national championship at North Carolina would be more impressive than Tom Brady winning a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and debate whether or not LeBron James has lived up to his end of the bargain with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
There's some thoughts about this is kind of crazy, Rob.
They're playing three games in a matter of eleven days,
and we're not talking about basketball or a soccer match
or something like that. We're talking about the NFL, actual
NFL games, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So he's obviously expressed his concern about that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You said, you know, you never quote you never want
to play this many games in a short amount of time.
And what's also interesting about this to me is this
is the team in which the NFL you and I
have had conversations about because the ratings for them are
higher than any other team the last five years, and
this is the team that they started to question with
this America's team because you need people who love you
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or hate.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You out of the Cowboys and not for sure what
they have.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So it's like, this is the team the NFL is
putting in this position and they'll.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Never replace the Cowboy nobody will.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But I'm saying ratings wise, they're saying, hey, this is
kind of the new team that if you put them
on TV, they're going to have the highest ratings every week.
This is just the way that the numbers have gone
for several years now with them. So this is the team,
your two time rating super Bowl champs that when numbers
show you're six percent likely to be more injured when
you play Thursday night games on a short rest. So
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they're playing three games in a matter of eleven days,
and it says the league rob that says, hey, we're
focused on on prioritizing health. We don't want our guys
to get hurt. We're taking care of them. We want
to do his best.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Three games in eleven days. That's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And so some other players on the team as well
have expressed their concern and said, I'm going to the
NFLPA at the end of the season to figure this out.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And they can't even get them healthcare and a better
retirement package.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
We just talked about that with Rod Woodson the other day.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So so going to the players Association that when the
players associated a chance to do something, you know what
they did. They got the players a chance to smoke
weed and not practice. That's what the Players Association. I'm
just tired of hearing about the players so well.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, I mean, so I think that was Chris Jones,
if I'm not mistaken who said that. You know, that's
their way of Yeah, it was Chris Jones checking the
box if you will, Like I did my part, I've
told you the media, I'm gonna tell the NFL PA.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
But it'll be.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Interesting to see if the NFL is gonna at the
end of the season look back at this run and say,
all right, that was a bit much, especially I don't
care if it was the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
No, it's not even about just the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
If this were the Panthers, you know, all right, three
games in eleven days is a lot, especially Rob the
way their by is set up. They had their by
early week six, So it's like our bie was so
long ago. It's not like we had this week eleven.
I mean it's eleven three games an eleven day stretch,
and then Okay, oh thank god we got a break
coming up after that, or we just had it the
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week prior.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
This is it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This is their run going to the postseason, hopefully for them,
a deep postseason run.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
This is it. No rest for the weary.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And so it really is interesting the league that's that
wants to it was already added on a seventeenth game.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
It's like, man, they don't care. They don't care about
the players.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
They don't so they gotta sell us that bill. Right,
it's a charade. It's it's a boulder dash, it's poppy cock.
They don't care. They don't three games in eleven days.
I mean, if they could play, get these guys to
play four games a week in the NFL, they would
if they could.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
They they talk.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
One one thing, say one thing, and they do another.
This is out wage just to play that many.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's I mean, you think about it, manages football is
such a demanding sport on your body, so taxing. You
and I have sat next to football players for years,
and you see how they walk. You see their fingers
are pointing the wrong direction, knees are all messed up,
gott metal knees and all this stuff. And the league
knows this, and the league has done so many comprehensive reports.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
There have been so many studies about what it does
to the body.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And to be fair, every player knows this, and every
player has said what, including.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
E for Salam. Just last week, you and I asked
him this.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He said, I do it again because everything that comes
with it. Now they don't want their sons to have
to do it and go through it, but they say,
I did it, laid it on the line, generational wealth,
you know, put myself in position to a radio shows
and talk shows and beep color analysts. Great, set myself
up for a great life the next thirty forty to
fifty years.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
But I wouldn't want my kids to go through this.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And so the idea that the NFL didn't think this
through it's crazy to me. And I go back to
my first point too. I just also find it interesting
that you would think maybe they would go, all right,
don't tell anybody, but you know how when teams suck,
we're gonna send them to Europe. You know, Hey, the
Jags play in Europe so much at some point I'm
just gonna think they are the London Jags. They're the
Berlin Jags at this point are you would think maybe
(05:15):
they'd sending one of those teams.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Maybe they'd seen no because they weren't selling any tickets
in Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
They you know, the franchise. They they swung and miss
on Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
They thought Jacksonville could be green Bay and it turned
out that it's not green Bay. You know, they said, well,
if green Bay can do it right a small market,
look at it.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They sell out the stadium there, they're they're wow, you know,
why can't a city the sides of Jacksonville do the
same thing if you have nothing else?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Right, Yeah, well you ain't.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The issue is, Fortunately for green Bay, they were literally
one of the you know, early teams in the NFL period,
back back back back back in the day. So they
just built this thing up to where and then like
we all know, winning cures all the old fifties and sixties.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Packers won a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So they the fan base became this is our way
a life, is what we have, we win it. The
Lombardi dag on trophies with his call. So they have
that history to have build up to create that fan base.
That's not the case for the Jacks, but the same
way they do with hard knocks. We're like, if you
hadn't made the postseason in the last couple of seasons, whatever,
you are one of the few teams that has to
end up. You know you're in the runnings to have
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to be the team on hard knocks. I thought they
would do it that way. Hey, if you've sucked, you've
been terrible for the last couple years, and you gotta
do this eleven three game in eleven day stretch. I
didn't think they would put the two time running raigning
champs in this position when again, studies show six percent
likely to get injured, and also coaches don't play their
star players or injured players more than next game, not
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even fully injured. Just I gotta get you some rest somewhere,
So I'm gonna buy you some rests. I thought they
wouldn't do this with the Chiefs, and also your team,
the Ravens are gonna be in similar situations playing so
many games in short days.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean, this is the this is the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
As long as the players don't push back, and again,
the only way you get the attention of the ownership
and the commissioner is to stop football, stop the games.
Once you stop the games and the money, they you'll
get their attention. And they refuse to do it. They
had plenty of chances. How did the Baseball Union become
(07:21):
so strong?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Stop the World Series? Hundred some of odd years in
a row there was a World Series and one day
they said, okay, enough, we're not playing. You're not going
to lock us out. We'll strike and we won't be
back for the World Series.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Has done it too. Now you're not to that degree.
But we've had certain season.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Right, And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And the NFL players they had a strike back in
eighty seven, which I covered, and I remember that when
they have replacement players. But other than that, the players
refuse to get together. They have so much power, but
they don't use it. And this is another example. They'll
belliate to the media, they'll cry to the union, but
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they won't do anything about it.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
They won't do anything about it. And people are like,
you wouldn't give up your zellary, Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
If everybody does it together, it won't be a long struggle.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I was gonna say, it's not that given it's giving
up very salary for a period of time, you know,
a month, two months, they.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Give fire everybody. This is the if all the players
as a group. And that's what baseball is so strong about.
You know what they do. They have a war chest
of money so that players don't gonna cry when they're out.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You know why, if you need money.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
To pay bills, they got pred Here we go, here's
your money. And you know what, when you get your
money back after this, you'll pay it back. You'll put
it back into the war chest. It's simple.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, it's it's planning for no pun intended, but just
planning for war in that sense.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know, you spend all those years in Detroit, me
being from Detroit area.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Like the unions and car unions are powerful.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
They're powerful because they are ready to go to bat
for whatever it needs to get done for the employee.
So but we'll see, we'll see after you know, you
got your star player and Patrick mahomes your star player,
star our team and the Chiefs and they're saying this publicly.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We'll see how it all plays out of the end
of the season.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
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Speaker 3 (09:26):
Speaking of rob Gie, you go ahead, some sound about
the idea that Bill Belichick winning at North Carolina will
be greater than Brad Tom Brady winning at Tampa. This
is from a former tight end what's his name again,
Jermaine Wiggins on the radio show in Boston.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I think that if Bill's able to win in college,
it's hotter to do that than win when Brady won
a Tampa because remember when Brady went to Tampa, Brady.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
He went to a loaded team, Yes, very loaded.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
The Bucks finished the twenty seven and nine, seven and nine,
the defense started to turn the corner. You had arguably
one of at that point in time top five wide
receivers in the game, and Mike Evans Chris Godwin was
probably in some people's mind a top ten, top twelve guy.
If Bill wins and Natty, that's better. That's horder to
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do because you go to the right team. If you
are a great player like Brady is, and we're not
taking nothing away from Brady, but you're a great player
like Brady.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We think the Jets think right if.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
You drop Tom Brady on the Jets roster right now,
they are legitimate Super Bowl contenders. If you drop Tom
Brady on the Carolina Panthers, he's got no shot of
winning the super Bowl. He won't even he might not
even sniff the playoffs. First of all, is as you
sure that shows from Boston?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
My god, those access I mean, wow.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I got Mark said, I thought Ben Afflag, Mark Warber,
show up, Kase Yah flag everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yes, yes, it is harder to win in college, especially
for him to go to a non football school and
win at North Carolina. Yes, it would be incredible. I
think that's stating the obvious Tom Brady. The one thing
that people don't the points they brought up were all legit.
They also had a quarterback who threw thirty touchdowns and
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they were seven and nine with a quarterback that threw
thirty interceptions.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I mean thirty. Seriously, that tells you how good that
team was.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, he already shot him in the foot quite a
bit of time.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It would have picked six. Is that's just hilarious? Oh yeah, man,
it's harder. Listen, he doesn't have a foundation of being
this great college cholch.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
He didn't go to He's not going to al He
didn't go to Alabama.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
He's not going to Alabama where the train just keeps rolling,
or Ohio State or Oklahoma Texas, these schools that just
continuously have done well historically. I ain't gotta do nothing,
show up and say, hey, you want to come play
for Alabama, you want to come play for Georgia, you.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Know where it's easy to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
He's got to build up a program from start, which
you're gonna take some time. And again, he's really doing
it in short order because none of us expect him
to be there that long. So it would be amazing
if all of a sudden, within a year or two,
within a year specifically though he goes there, somehow gets
into college. Now, the one thing I will say, the
way this college football playoff is set up now is
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to his advantage, meaning having twelve. Now, if he were
doing it, what his four and you're like, all right,
it's gonna be hard. Twelve does give him a you know,
just a slim.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Shot him to win a national championship.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
No, what I'm saying is get into tournament. Is what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
If you get in the tournament from there it becomes hey, anybody,
you can never know. So if he resta around and
went eight and three or some nine and three or
something and got in the tournament, you'd be like, all right, well,
shoot he got a shot, just because my point is
he would have no shot as what I'm saying a
year two or three ago, where because of the non
twelve teams, like he wasn't gonna finish in the top four.
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But now if you can finish and remember you know
you win your division, you automatically get.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The top four seed.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There are some like ways to get in and sneak in,
but no, this would be a greater accomplishment for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Him going there have no ties, hasn't done this before.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Right going in, which is totally different.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Like, yeah, tom Brady knew what he was doing. How
he selected that team.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
One he want.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Tom Brady wasn't going to a bad team and going
to elevate them. That team, he looked at it and said,
you clean up those those interceptions, right, you gotta they
got receivers, they got a defense.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
This team you got to coach Brewsterians a offensive minded
coach who I can get down with.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean it may say and rightfully, it's funny
him and.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Bruce Arians did have a falling out because you remember
they pushed Bruceerians out.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
They did, they did.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But in the beginning though, when he was choosing, he
was like, all right, they got Bruce Arians, their offensive
minded coach. Yeah, he went, he wasn't going to save
the Jags or nothing like that, you know, he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Ain't nobody that that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And then I'll be like, you are the goat if
you could take the Jaguars anywhere, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
If you're not leaving, if you either retire or you
stay in Boston and with the Patriots, then to go,
you know, to some bad team, right if you're gonna
stay in the league. I'm trying to win right now.
I'm going to a Taylor May team. Perfect situation, and
I can bring that leadership. I can bring the what
it takes to win to the locker room and mind you,
(14:25):
and I'm gonna go get some guys. I'm gonna go
get some hitters. I'm gonna go get grunk, get up
out the couns, bro, come help.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Your boy out. Let's go win one more. Come on,
you know what i mean?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Going to get some guys, some of your players, man
and making it making it even easier for yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 1 (14:50):
All right, Rob G, can you give us an update
about your favorite basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers and
your guy Lebron James, who's not with the team personal reasons,
as coach JJ Reddicks said, And there's more.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yeah, Robi, the updates are not good if you're a
Lakers fan because despite being off for about a week now,
including as you mentioned, two personal days away from the team,
which we don't know what they're for, whether injury, emotional, mental,
We have no idea at this point, has already been
declared out for tomorrow's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. And
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the company line, Rob and Kelvin is that he's just gassed.
He needs a rest, he needs to recuperate, you know,
to finish off the rest of the calendar year.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And this was the guy who they can't JJ and
him came in with the plan he was gonna play
every game this year. Was that the plan, right, he
was gonna play. That was the craziest thing I've heard
for a forty year player. Okay, why was not logical?
Why why would that be on the docket?
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I think what Michael Jordan played every game is last year.
I'm just it's one of those things. It's got to
be something. But Michael wasn't forty years old. Okay, remember
he only played fourteen years. Here we go, though, Kelvin, Seriously,
Lebron James has let down the Lakers. Okay with this
(16:18):
stunt that he's pulled here. And I don't know what
he's going through the personal reasons. I'm not trying to
get into that, but this guy has taken over the
Lakers organization.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Jenie bust for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I don't out there like they never had an empty seat,
but she feels like without Lebron, I guess that they
can't function.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
But here's my biggest issue. Kelvin.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Lebron got his guy hired as coach. JJ Reddick. Say
whatever you want, oh Lebron and a podcast partner. Let's
put JJ Reddick on display so everybody can say he's
a basketball genius and look at all he knows all
this stuff about basketball, all this other stuff, and he
gets the Lakers to draft his son so that he
(17:05):
could play right on the team with and then the kid.
You thought, like a lot of people already go down
the G League, No big deal, to a photo op.
It'll be all over, go ahead down and get better. No,
he's on the team. He's not traveling on the road
with the G League team. He's with the main club.
He's not playing them just for what why is he
taking a roster spot?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And now he's not playing, he's on a sabbatical and
taking days off.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Like if you're injured, you're injured.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But just to take off and be away from the
team is letting the team down. They need Lebron James.
They're not rolling, you know what I mean. Like even
with Lebron, and he's been playing well except for that
really bad eight games or whatever it was six games
that stretch, his numbers are good and he's stepping away
(17:56):
from the game. So he's not holding up to his
end of the bargain.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
When the old when the.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Franchise bent over backwards for him, Darvinham, Okay, you got problem.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You don't want him around, Okay, we'll do to that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You guy, JJ Reddick, your podcast partner. You really think
a lot of JJ and all that. Okay, we'll hire JJ.
What you want, Bronnie or whatever, he want us to
give him a fully guaranteed contract to instead of what
everybody else gets in the second round.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Okay, we'll do that too. And now your ghost you're gone.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And now all let's talk about He's desperate to win
a championship with Brownie and he wouldn't go to any
other trade unless his sons go. Man, that's a lot
of stuff going on. If I'm the Lakers, I feel
like I got betrayed by Lebron.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
That Lebron sold me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
A bill of goods and now he's ready to dip
out the back door with his kid in tow.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Rob, remind me to never have a rough personal week
or whatever. Even if I'm injured falling down the stairs.
I can't take a week off because everything I would
have done you like you know what, Rob, G and Alex.
It's over for Kelvin because God forbid something going on
in life and I need a week off, a week,
a week of eighty two games, a week of playing
(19:12):
until April, maybe May maybe June, depending on how far
it goes.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And I need a week.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The same person who has given you his all, who
gave you a championship, who worked to get you to
Western College Finals, and it hasn't been great. I can
understand frustration with Laker fans. I can understand they thought
we would get more, we wanted more, but you know
what it was prior to Lebron. And this is one thing.
I truly mean this. I need Laker fans to understand,
and Rob g you're one of them. It ain't perfect.
(19:39):
You're dealing with a forty year old. He's gonna he's
he's gonna be tired, he's not gonna play the best defense.
And you know I'm a big fan, but it's the fact.
But let me tell you some records you had prior
to him. Twenty twenty three to twenty fourteen, twenty seven
games you won. The next year twenty one games you won.
The next year, seventeen games you won, the next year,
(20:00):
twenty six games you won.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
So all of a sudden, the Bron gets here and
it ain't been great.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You ain't looking like the Warriors run, but na get
you won thirty seven, fifty two, forty two, thirty three,
forty three, forty seven. Like I said, you went into
the Western Conence finals, you won a championship, You made
the postseason a few times.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
In addition to that, it ain't been perfect.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But again, it ain't been twenty seven, twenty one, seventeen,
twenty six wins. It ain't been getting the number two
pick with Linzo Ball, D'Angelo Russell brandon ingem cause it
kept being a horrible team. At least you've been relevant,
at least you've made it in the posts. At least
you won a championship. I thought that's what it's all
about for Lakers. So if a man take a week off, rob,
(20:43):
come on now one week?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Wait a minute, count, I'm dipping out for a month. No,
But the problem is he didn't just retire. You only play.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Eighty two games in the calendar year of three hundred
and sixty five days. You don't take off. Nobody takes all.
This is your season. And what do you mean you're
taking a week off? Wo give me the other guys
who have taken him a week off?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Who every single player in the NBA. No, they don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They don't away from their away from his away from
there and go nineties away from their team, not not
sitting out away from the team. Stop it, if Phil Jackson,
stop making excuse for Lebron.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
No, it's not an excuse, it's a fact.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
If he took a week off, Okay, okay, it isn't optimal,
there is. It's not what you love or desire. But
I'm not gonna be like he let the team down
because they did.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
He took one week off. You don't even believe it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Discovering, I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You do not what they did for them.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
They bent over backwards for Lebron. And you know what
he did?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
What did he do?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Rob?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I don't want to say it, but he bet the
But he do Rob. He didn't do right by the
couple of games off, No way, a couple the team.
The team is in Flox. They need their captain and
and you know what.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They are saying, they also need as his own coach,
his old friend, as you mentioned, even mentioned he's gassed.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I appreciate. I'm actually glass and retire. I'm tired gas takes.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Some time off, get out of there.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Retire, you old, a forty year old retire if you.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Can't play eighty two games. He's gassed from what he
doesn't play defense?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
What is he gas from? He's gas play default.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
But you just you can't just tell me he's putting
up having a good, solid season.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You just said that and don't play but you don't
play defense. He played on one side of the court.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But the man's forty years old giving you twenty three
and fift shooting and.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Empty.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
They're empty there, It's empty. They're sitting there at the
A C right now. So again, I'm not justifying that
this is an amazing season.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why would I do that.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
It's not but the idea that the man took off
one week, a couple of games and I'm gonna put
him in damnation.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It literally doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
And that's one thing I totally want Laker for.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I get it. It hasn't been great, it hasn't been
what you wanted. And you want championships. You got one,
and you want that. I totally with you. But again,
when the end of Kobe, and I know he was
the guy here, So I'm not comparing it because Kobe
played his whole year, his whole career here, But.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I'm just saying, look, man, it was rough. It was
a rough patch.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Twenty seven, twenty one, seventeen twenty six games you were winning.
This has been at least where you're at least in
this thing forty seven and thirty five last last year,
Lebron takes a couple of games off. I'm not about
to put him in damnation for that. Come on, stop
it and God forbid. One day you'll be like, yo, man,
I'm going through some things, Yo, Rob.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
G I need a week off, Rob g am I
taking a week off
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Based on his email, like you, God, Rob's not even
taking the holiday off, thank you exactly,
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
There's some thoughts about this is kind of crazy, Rob.
They're playing three games in a matter of eleven days,
and we're not talking about basketball or a soccer match
or something like that. We're talking about the NFL, actual
NFL games, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So he's obviously expressed his concern about that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You said, you know, you never quote you never want
to play this many games in a short amount of time.
And what's also interesting about this to me is this
is the team in which the NFL you and I
have had conversations about because the ratings for them are
higher than any other team the last five years, and
this is the team that they started to question with
this America's team because you need people who love you
(01:13):
or hate.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You out of the Cowboys and not for sure what
they have.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So it's like, this is the team the NFL is
putting in this position and they'll.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Never replace the Cowboy nobody will.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But I'm saying ratings wise, they're saying, hey, this is
kind of the new team that if you put them
on TV, they're going to have the highest ratings every week.
This is just the way that the numbers have gone
for several years now with them. So this is the team,
your two time rating super Bowl champs that when numbers
show you're six percent likely to be more injured when
you play Thursday night games on a short rest. So
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they're playing three games in a matter of eleven days,
and it says the league rob that says, hey, we're
focused on on prioritizing health. We don't want our guys
to get hurt. We're taking care of them. We want
to do his best.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Three games in eleven days. That's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And so some other players on the team as well
have expressed their concern and said, I'm going to the
NFLPA at the end of the season to figure this out.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And they can't even get them healthcare and a better
retirement package.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
We just talked about that with Rod Woodson the other day.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So so going to the players Association that when the
players associated a chance to do something, you know what
they did. They got the players a chance to smoke
weed and not practice. That's what the Players Association. I'm
just tired of hearing about the players so well.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, I mean, so I think that was Chris Jones,
if I'm not mistaken who said that. You know, that's
their way of Yeah, it was Chris Jones checking the
box if you will, Like I did my part, I've
told you the media, I'm gonna tell the NFL PA.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
But it'll be.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Interesting to see if the NFL is gonna at the
end of the season look back at this run and say,
all right, that was a bit much, especially I don't
care if it was the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
No, it's not even about just the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
If this were the Panthers, you know, all right, three
games in eleven days is a lot, especially Rob the
way their by is set up. They had their by
early week six, So it's like our bie was so
long ago. It's not like we had this week eleven.
I mean it's eleven three games an eleven day stretch,
and then Okay, oh thank god we got a break
coming up after that, or we just had it the
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week prior.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
This is it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This is their run going to the postseason, hopefully for them,
a deep postseason run.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
This is it. No rest for the weary.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And so it really is interesting the league that's that
wants to it was already added on a seventeenth game.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
It's like, man, they don't care. They don't care about
the players.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
They don't so they gotta sell us that bill. Right,
it's a charade. It's it's a boulder dash, it's poppy cock.
They don't care. They don't three games in eleven days.
I mean, if they could play, get these guys to
play four games a week in the NFL, they would
if they could.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
They they talk.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
One one thing, say one thing, and they do another.
This is out wage just to play that many.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's I mean, you think about it, manages football is
such a demanding sport on your body, so taxing. You
and I have sat next to football players for years,
and you see how they walk. You see their fingers
are pointing the wrong direction, knees are all messed up,
gott metal knees and all this stuff. And the league
knows this, and the league has done so many comprehensive reports.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
There have been so many studies about what it does
to the body.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And to be fair, every player knows this, and every
player has said what, including.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
E for Salam. Just last week, you and I asked
him this.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He said, I do it again because everything that comes
with it. Now they don't want their sons to have
to do it and go through it, but they say,
I did it, laid it on the line, generational wealth,
you know, put myself in position to a radio shows
and talk shows and beep color analysts. Great, set myself
up for a great life the next thirty forty to
fifty years.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
But I wouldn't want my kids to go through this.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And so the idea that the NFL didn't think this
through it's crazy to me. And I go back to
my first point too. I just also find it interesting
that you would think maybe they would go, all right,
don't tell anybody, but you know how when teams suck,
we're gonna send them to Europe. You know, Hey, the
Jags play in Europe so much at some point I'm
just gonna think they are the London Jags. They're the
Berlin Jags at this point are you would think maybe
(05:15):
they'd sending one of those teams.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Maybe they'd seen no because they weren't selling any tickets
in Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
They you know, the franchise. They they swung and miss
on Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
They thought Jacksonville could be green Bay and it turned
out that it's not green Bay. You know, they said, well,
if green Bay can do it right a small market,
look at it.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They sell out the stadium there, they're they're wow, you know,
why can't a city the sides of Jacksonville do the
same thing if you have nothing else?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Right, Yeah, well you ain't.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The issue is, Fortunately for green Bay, they were literally
one of the you know, early teams in the NFL period,
back back back back back in the day. So they
just built this thing up to where and then like
we all know, winning cures all the old fifties and sixties.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Packers won a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So they the fan base became this is our way
a life, is what we have, we win it. The
Lombardi dag on trophies with his call. So they have
that history to have build up to create that fan base.
That's not the case for the Jacks, but the same
way they do with hard knocks. We're like, if you
hadn't made the postseason in the last couple of seasons, whatever,
you are one of the few teams that has to
end up. You know you're in the runnings to have
(06:22):
to be the team on hard knocks. I thought they
would do it that way. Hey, if you've sucked, you've
been terrible for the last couple years, and you gotta
do this eleven three game in eleven day stretch. I
didn't think they would put the two time running raigning
champs in this position when again, studies show six percent
likely to get injured, and also coaches don't play their
star players or injured players more than next game, not
(06:44):
even fully injured. Just I gotta get you some rest somewhere,
So I'm gonna buy you some rests. I thought they
wouldn't do this with the Chiefs, and also your team,
the Ravens are gonna be in similar situations playing so
many games in short days.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean, this is the this is the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
As long as the players don't push back, and again,
the only way you get the attention of the ownership
and the commissioner is to stop football, stop the games.
Once you stop the games and the money, they you'll
get their attention. And they refuse to do it. They
had plenty of chances. How did the Baseball Union become
(07:21):
so strong?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Stop the World Series? Hundred some of odd years in
a row there was a World Series and one day
they said, okay, enough, we're not playing. You're not going
to lock us out. We'll strike and we won't be
back for the World Series.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Has done it too. Now you're not to that degree.
But we've had certain season.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Right, And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And the NFL players they had a strike back in
eighty seven, which I covered, and I remember that when
they have replacement players. But other than that, the players
refuse to get together. They have so much power, but
they don't use it. And this is another example. They'll
belliate to the media, they'll cry to the union, but
(08:05):
they won't do anything about it.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
They won't do anything about it. And people are like,
you wouldn't give up your zellary, Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
If everybody does it together, it won't be a long struggle.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I was gonna say, it's not that given it's giving
up very salary for a period of time, you know,
a month, two months, they.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Give fire everybody. This is the if all the players
as a group. And that's what baseball is so strong about.
You know what they do. They have a war chest
of money so that players don't gonna cry when they're out.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
You know why, if you need money.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
To pay bills, they got pred Here we go, here's
your money. And you know what, when you get your
money back after this, you'll pay it back. You'll put
it back into the war chest. It's simple.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, it's it's planning for no pun intended, but just
planning for war in that sense.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know, you spend all those years in Detroit, me
being from Detroit area.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Like the unions and car unions are powerful.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
They're powerful because they are ready to go to bat
for whatever it needs to get done for the employee.
So but we'll see, we'll see after you know, you
got your star player and Patrick mahomes your star player,
star our team and the Chiefs and they're saying this publicly.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We'll see how it all plays out of the end
of the season.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
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Speaker 3 (09:26):
Speaking of rob Gie, you go ahead, some sound about
the idea that Bill Belichick winning at North Carolina will
be greater than Brad Tom Brady winning at Tampa. This
is from a former tight end what's his name again,
Jermaine Wiggins on the radio show in Boston.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I think that if Bill's able to win in college,
it's hotter to do that than win when Brady won
a Tampa because remember when Brady went to Tampa, Brady.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
He went to a loaded team, Yes, very loaded.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
The Bucks finished the twenty seven and nine, seven and nine,
the defense started to turn the corner. You had arguably
one of at that point in time top five wide
receivers in the game, and Mike Evans Chris Godwin was
probably in some people's mind a top ten, top twelve guy.
If Bill wins and Natty, that's better. That's horder to
(10:20):
do because you go to the right team. If you
are a great player like Brady is, and we're not
taking nothing away from Brady, but you're a great player
like Brady.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We think the Jets think right if.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
You drop Tom Brady on the Jets roster right now,
they are legitimate Super Bowl contenders. If you drop Tom
Brady on the Carolina Panthers, he's got no shot of
winning the super Bowl. He won't even he might not
even sniff the playoffs. First of all, is as you
sure that shows from Boston?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
My god, those access I mean, wow.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I got Mark said, I thought Ben Afflag, Mark Warber,
show up, Kase Yah flag everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yes, yes, it is harder to win in college, especially
for him to go to a non football school and
win at North Carolina. Yes, it would be incredible. I
think that's stating the obvious Tom Brady. The one thing
that people don't the points they brought up were all legit.
They also had a quarterback who threw thirty touchdowns and
(11:24):
they were seven and nine with a quarterback that threw
thirty interceptions.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I mean thirty. Seriously, that tells you how good that
team was.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, he already shot him in the foot quite a
bit of time.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It would have picked six. Is that's just hilarious? Oh yeah, man,
it's harder. Listen, he doesn't have a foundation of being
this great college cholch.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
He didn't go to He's not going to al He
didn't go to Alabama.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
He's not going to Alabama where the train just keeps rolling,
or Ohio State or Oklahoma Texas, these schools that just
continuously have done well historically. I ain't gotta do nothing,
show up and say, hey, you want to come play
for Alabama, you want to come play for Georgia, you.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Know where it's easy to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
He's got to build up a program from start, which
you're gonna take some time. And again, he's really doing
it in short order because none of us expect him
to be there that long. So it would be amazing
if all of a sudden, within a year or two,
within a year specifically though he goes there, somehow gets
into college. Now, the one thing I will say, the
way this college football playoff is set up now is
(12:28):
to his advantage, meaning having twelve. Now, if he were
doing it, what his four and you're like, all right,
it's gonna be hard. Twelve does give him a you know,
just a slim.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Shot him to win a national championship.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
No, what I'm saying is get into tournament. Is what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
If you get in the tournament from there it becomes hey, anybody,
you can never know. So if he resta around and
went eight and three or some nine and three or
something and got in the tournament, you'd be like, all right, well,
shoot he got a shot, just because my point is
he would have no shot as what I'm saying a
year two or three ago, where because of the non
twelve teams, like he wasn't gonna finish in the top four.
(13:03):
But now if you can finish and remember you know
you win your division, you automatically get.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The top four seed.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There are some like ways to get in and sneak in,
but no, this would be a greater accomplishment for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Him going there have no ties, hasn't done this before.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Right going in, which is totally different.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Like, yeah, tom Brady knew what he was doing. How
he selected that team.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
One he want.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Tom Brady wasn't going to a bad team and going
to elevate them. That team, he looked at it and said,
you clean up those those interceptions, right, you gotta they
got receivers, they got a defense.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
This team you got to coach Brewsterians a offensive minded
coach who I can get down with.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean it may say and rightfully, it's funny
him and.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Bruce Arians did have a falling out because you remember
they pushed Bruceerians out.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
They did, they did.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But in the beginning though, when he was choosing, he
was like, all right, they got Bruce Arians, their offensive
minded coach. Yeah, he went, he wasn't going to save
the Jags or nothing like that, you know, he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Ain't nobody that that.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And then I'll be like, you are the goat if
you could take the Jaguars anywhere, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
If you're not leaving, if you either retire or you
stay in Boston and with the Patriots, then to go,
you know, to some bad team, right if you're gonna
stay in the league. I'm trying to win right now.
I'm going to a Taylor May team. Perfect situation, and
I can bring that leadership. I can bring the what
it takes to win to the locker room and mind you,
(14:25):
and I'm gonna go get some guys. I'm gonna go
get some hitters. I'm gonna go get grunk, get up
out the couns, bro, come help.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Your boy out. Let's go win one more. Come on,
you know what i mean?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Going to get some guys, some of your players, man
and making it making it even easier for yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 1 (14:50):
All right, Rob G, can you give us an update
about your favorite basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers and
your guy Lebron James, who's not with the team personal reasons,
as coach JJ Reddicks said, And there's more.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yeah, Robi, the updates are not good if you're a
Lakers fan because despite being off for about a week now,
including as you mentioned, two personal days away from the team,
which we don't know what they're for, whether injury, emotional, mental,
We have no idea at this point, has already been
declared out for tomorrow's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. And
(15:27):
the company line, Rob and Kelvin is that he's just gassed.
He needs a rest, he needs to recuperate, you know,
to finish off the rest of the calendar year.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And this was the guy who they can't JJ and
him came in with the plan he was gonna play
every game this year. Was that the plan, right, he
was gonna play. That was the craziest thing I've heard
for a forty year player. Okay, why was not logical?
Why why would that be on the docket?
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I think what Michael Jordan played every game is last year.
I'm just it's one of those things. It's got to
be something. But Michael wasn't forty years old. Okay, remember
he only played fourteen years. Here we go, though, Kelvin, Seriously,
Lebron James has let down the Lakers. Okay with this
(16:18):
stunt that he's pulled here. And I don't know what
he's going through the personal reasons. I'm not trying to
get into that, but this guy has taken over the
Lakers organization.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Jenie bust for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I don't out there like they never had an empty seat,
but she feels like without Lebron, I guess that they
can't function.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
But here's my biggest issue. Kelvin.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Lebron got his guy hired as coach. JJ Reddick. Say
whatever you want, oh Lebron and a podcast partner. Let's
put JJ Reddick on display so everybody can say he's
a basketball genius and look at all he knows all
this stuff about basketball, all this other stuff, and he
gets the Lakers to draft his son so that he
(17:05):
could play right on the team with and then the kid.
You thought, like a lot of people already go down
the G League, No big deal, to a photo op.
It'll be all over, go ahead down and get better. No,
he's on the team. He's not traveling on the road
with the G League team. He's with the main club.
He's not playing them just for what why is he
taking a roster spot?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And now he's not playing, he's on a sabbatical and
taking days off.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Like if you're injured, you're injured.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But just to take off and be away from the
team is letting the team down. They need Lebron James.
They're not rolling, you know what I mean. Like even
with Lebron, and he's been playing well except for that
really bad eight games or whatever it was six games
that stretch, his numbers are good and he's stepping away
(17:56):
from the game. So he's not holding up to his
end of the bargain.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
When the old when the.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Franchise bent over backwards for him, Darvinham, Okay, you got problem.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You don't want him around, Okay, we'll do to that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You guy, JJ Reddick, your podcast partner. You really think
a lot of JJ and all that. Okay, we'll hire JJ.
What you want, Bronnie or whatever, he want us to
give him a fully guaranteed contract to instead of what
everybody else gets in the second round.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Okay, we'll do that too. And now your ghost you're gone.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And now all let's talk about He's desperate to win
a championship with Brownie and he wouldn't go to any
other trade unless his sons go. Man, that's a lot
of stuff going on. If I'm the Lakers, I feel
like I got betrayed by Lebron.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
That Lebron sold me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
A bill of goods and now he's ready to dip
out the back door with his kid in tow.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Rob, remind me to never have a rough personal week
or whatever. Even if I'm injured falling down the stairs.
I can't take a week off because everything I would
have done you like you know what, Rob, G and Alex.
It's over for Kelvin because God forbid something going on
in life and I need a week off, a week,
a week of eighty two games, a week of playing
(19:12):
until April, maybe May maybe June, depending on how far
it goes.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And I need a week.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The same person who has given you his all, who
gave you a championship, who worked to get you to
Western College Finals, and it hasn't been great. I can
understand frustration with Laker fans. I can understand they thought
we would get more, we wanted more, but you know
what it was prior to Lebron. And this is one thing.
I truly mean this. I need Laker fans to understand,
and Rob g you're one of them. It ain't perfect.
(19:39):
You're dealing with a forty year old. He's gonna he's
he's gonna be tired, he's not gonna play the best defense.
And you know I'm a big fan, but it's the fact.
But let me tell you some records you had prior
to him. Twenty twenty three to twenty fourteen, twenty seven
games you won. The next year twenty one games you won.
The next year, seventeen games you won, the next year,
(20:00):
twenty six games you won.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
So all of a sudden, the Bron gets here and
it ain't been great.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You ain't looking like the Warriors run, but na get
you won thirty seven, fifty two, forty two, thirty three,
forty three, forty seven. Like I said, you went into
the Western Conence finals, you won a championship, You made
the postseason a few times.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
In addition to that, it ain't been perfect.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But again, it ain't been twenty seven, twenty one, seventeen,
twenty six wins. It ain't been getting the number two
pick with Linzo Ball, D'Angelo Russell brandon ingem cause it
kept being a horrible team. At least you've been relevant,
at least you've made it in the posts. At least
you won a championship. I thought that's what it's all
about for Lakers. So if a man take a week off, rob,
(20:43):
come on now one week?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Wait a minute, count, I'm dipping out for a month. No,
But the problem is he didn't just retire. You only play.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Eighty two games in the calendar year of three hundred
and sixty five days. You don't take off. Nobody takes all.
This is your season. And what do you mean you're
taking a week off? Wo give me the other guys
who have taken him a week off?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Who every single player in the NBA. No, they don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They don't away from their away from his away from
there and go nineties away from their team, not not
sitting out away from the team. Stop it, if Phil Jackson,
stop making excuse for Lebron.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
No, it's not an excuse, it's a fact.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
If he took a week off, Okay, okay, it isn't optimal,
there is. It's not what you love or desire. But
I'm not gonna be like he let the team down
because they did.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
He took one week off. You don't even believe it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Discovering, I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You do not what they did for them.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
They bent over backwards for Lebron. And you know what
he did?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
What did he do?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Rob?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I don't want to say it, but he bet the
But he do Rob. He didn't do right by the
couple of games off, No way, a couple the team.
The team is in Flox. They need their captain and
and you know what.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They are saying, they also need as his own coach,
his old friend, as you mentioned, even mentioned he's gassed.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I appreciate. I'm actually glass and retire. I'm tired gas takes.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Some time off, get out of there.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Retire, you old, a forty year old retire if you.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Can't play eighty two games. He's gassed from what he
doesn't play defense?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
What is he gas from? He's gas play default.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
But you just you can't just tell me he's putting
up having a good, solid season.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You just said that and don't play but you don't
play defense. He played on one side of the court.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But the man's forty years old giving you twenty three
and fift shooting and.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Empty.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
They're empty there, It's empty. They're sitting there at the
A C right now. So again, I'm not justifying that
this is an amazing season.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why would I do that.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
It's not but the idea that the man took off
one week, a couple of games and I'm gonna put
him in damnation.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It literally doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
And that's one thing I totally want Laker for.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I get it. It hasn't been great, it hasn't been
what you wanted. And you want championships. You got one,
and you want that. I totally with you. But again,
when the end of Kobe, and I know he was
the guy here, So I'm not comparing it because Kobe
played his whole year, his whole career here, But.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I'm just saying, look, man, it was rough. It was
a rough patch.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Twenty seven, twenty one, seventeen twenty six games you were winning.
This has been at least where you're at least in
this thing forty seven and thirty five last last year,
Lebron takes a couple of games off. I'm not about
to put him in damnation for that. Come on, stop
it and God forbid. One day you'll be like, yo, man,
I'm going through some things, Yo, Rob.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
G I need a week off, Rob g am I
taking a week off
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Based on his email, like you, God, Rob's not even
taking the holiday off, thank you exactly,
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